The Role: 

We’re looking for a Product Manager to lead an autonomous team of software developers, designers, QA engineers, and data analysts in the area of Planning and Instruction. The Planning and Instruction team is focused on helping teachers organize their instructional content stay organized and plan rich learning experiences for their students. The experience of using Newsela for teaching and learning should be beautiful, empowering, and fun. As Product Manager, you will be part of a highly collaborative team working to develop a strategy and roadmap for how teachers and students will engage with Newsela’s product in the classroom and throughout the school year.

Why You’ll Love This Role:

Your work will directly impact the evolution and growth of a product that reaches over 20 million users and helps shape the future of K-12 education. As a Product Manager, you will get to lead an autonomous team that is deeply entrenched in the design and development of a crisp, intuitive, engaging product. As part of your work, you will have opportunities to visit classrooms and talk to teachers to learn about their unique challenges, and how Newsela might be able to solve for them. As part of an energized and growing team, you will also get to collaborate closely with user researchers, designers, and engineers to build your product.

Why We’ll Love You: 

An experienced Product Manager, you’ve spent 4-5 years blending multiple inputs (product data, interviews, surveys, user research, and competitive analysis) into a coherent product strategy and roadmap. You have an intuitive understanding of what makes great products, and don’t limit your interests to digital. You also enjoy working closely with designers and developers to create beautiful, intuitive interface design. A fanatic for organization, you love helping others stay organized during long, complex projects. You may even have worked in education, or are keen to dig into this world and learn what it takes to empower teachers to do what they do best - inspire their students to want to learn.  

About Newsela:

Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that combines engaging, leveled content with integrated formative assessments and insights to supercharge engagement and learning in every subject. Students and teachers use Newsela to find digital content from 100+ of the best sources—from National Geographic to NASA, Biography.com to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Washington Post to the Wichita Eagle. Content is instructionalized to meet students where they are, with interactive tools and analytics to take them where they want to go. Newsela has become an essential solution for schools and districts, with a presence in over 90% of U.S. K-12 schools. Newsela is the content platform for the connected classroom.